Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the Formation of Geographical and Topographical Maps and Plans: Military Reconnaissance, Levelling, Etc |
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Also , if the objects are situated in a plane very oblique to the horizon , an approximation to their horizontal angular distance is obtained by observing each of them with reference to some distant mark considerably to the right or ...
Also , if the objects are situated in a plane very oblique to the horizon , an approximation to their horizontal angular distance is obtained by observing each of them with reference to some distant mark considerably to the right or ...
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... yards , they will evidently afford the means of obtaining an approximate distance ; but even without this scale , if the pencil b be held up to the eye at any distance a , and the height or diameter of any object h of h * About 1100 ...
... yards , they will evidently afford the means of obtaining an approximate distance ; but even without this scale , if the pencil b be held up to the eye at any distance a , and the height or diameter of any object h of h * About 1100 ...
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The approximate height is then obtained by inspection , taking the difference between the numbers corre* As a proof , however , that the results given by the barometer are not always to be depended upon when extended to very great ...
The approximate height is then obtained by inspection , taking the difference between the numbers corre* As a proof , however , that the results given by the barometer are not always to be depended upon when extended to very great ...
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Lastly , the correction in the third table , opposite to this result , multiplied by the mean of the detached thermometers , and added to the approximate height , gives the true difference of altitude . Below , the same example as ...
Lastly , the correction in the third table , opposite to this result , multiplied by the mean of the detached thermometers , and added to the approximate height , gives the true difference of altitude . Below , the same example as ...
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30,278 9600 from the left hand for integers , which will be an approximate height in fathoms . 3rd . Correct the number last found for the atmospheric temperature , shown by the detached thermometers , as follows : -For every degree ...
30,278 9600 from the left hand for integers , which will be an approximate height in fathoms . 3rd . Correct the number last found for the atmospheric temperature , shown by the detached thermometers , as follows : -For every degree ...
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Page 73 - AB, aBA, the sum of the two refractions ; hence, supposing half that sum to be the true refraction, we have the following rule when the objects are reciprocally depressed. Subtract the sum of the two depressions from the contained arc, and half the remainder is the mean refraction : — If one of the points B, instead of being depressed, be elevated suppose to the point g, the angle of elevation being g AD, then * " Trigonometrical Survey,
Page 74 - BA, the sum of the two refractions ; the rule for the mean refraction then in this case is, subtract the depression from the sum of the contained arc and the elevation, and half the remainder is the mean refraction *. The...
Page 81 - ... indigo), till it nearly reaches to the necks of the bottles, which are then corked for the convenience of carriage. On setting the stand tolerably level by the eye, these corks are both withdrawn, which must be done carefully, and when the tube is nearly level, or the water will be ejected with violence ; and the surface of the water in the bottles, being necessarily on the same level, gives a horizontal line in whatever direction the tube is turned, by which the vane of a levelling staff is...
Page 112 - ... diameter. B, a sliding tube of tin, moving up and down in the pot ; the head of the tube is closed, but has a slit in it, C, to admit of the thermometer passing through a collar of cork, which shuts up the slit where the thermometer is placed. D, thermometer, with so much of the scale left out as may be desirable. E, holes for the escape of steam. The pot is filled four or five inches with pure water ; the thermometer fitted into the aperture in the lid of the sliding tube, by means of a collar...
Page 114 - Assuming 30'00 inches as the average height of the barometer at the level of the sea (which is however too much), the altitude of the upper station is at once obtained by inspection of Table I, correcting for temperature of the stratum of air traversed by table II.
Page 158 - In the orthographic projection, every point of the hemisphere is referred to its diametral plane or base, by a perpendicular let fall on it, so that the representation of the hemisphere thus mapped on its base, is such as it would actually appear to an eye placed at an infinite distance from it. It is obvious, from the annexed figure, that in this projection only the central portions are represented of their true forms, while all the exterior is more and more distorted and crowded together as we...
Page 114 - When the boiling point at the upper station alone is observed, and for the lower the level of the sea, or the register of a distinct barometer is taken, then the barometric reading had better be converted into feet, by the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1-47712 (log. of 30 inches) and multiplying by '0006, as the differences in the column of " barometer " vary more rapidly than those in the ''''feet
Page 14 - heliotrope," which is a piece of looking-glass, so adjusted as to reflect the sun directly to any desired point, is the most perfect arrangement. For night signals, an Argand lamp is used ; or, best of all, Drummond's light, produced by a stream of oxygen gas directed through a flame of alcohol upon a ball of lime. Its distinctness is exceedingly increased by a parabolic reflector behind it, or a lens in front of it. Such a light was brilliantly visible at 66 miles distance. (385) Observations of...
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| Title | Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the Formation of Geographical and Topographical Maps and Plans: Military Reconnaissance, Levelling, Etc |
| Author | Edward Charles Frome |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Weale, 1850 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 253 pages |
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